Tobacco pipe collector and smoker,guitar,paleontology,paleoanthropology,football,Single barrel Jack Danials,Large hippie gatherings,Hacky Sack master, spelling badly,and moving my lips when I read. A FEW OF MY PIPES
Nostradamus,Mr.Green Jeans,Robert Johnson(delta bluesman),Mabelle Carter,Timothy Leary,Hunter S. Thompson,Wavy Gravy,Jimmy Carter,Charles Bukowski,Jim Thorpe,hot babes,and my grandpa Gilliland
BLUES(Willie Brown,Leadbelly, Robert Jonhson,Blind Lemon,Blind Willie McTell,The Masked Marval a.k.a.Charlie Patton,Mississippi John Hurt,Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, RL Burnside,Blind Boy Fuller,Bukka White,Henry Thomas,Ramblin' Thomas,Son House,Rev.Gary Davis,Howlin' Wolf,Van Morrison,Janis Joplin,Canned Heat, etc.)ROCK(Chuck Berry,Beatles,Rolling Stones,Pink Floyd,The Byrds,Cream,CSN&Y,Jethro Tull,Grateful Dead,King Crimson,Led Zepplin,David Bowe,Big Star,Blind Melon,Nirvana,Janes Addiction,Stone Temple Pilots,Wilco,Alvin Youngblood Hart,White Stripes,Raconteurs,Golden Smog)COUNTRY(Uncle Dave Macon,The Carter Family,Charlie Poole,Bascom Lamar Lunford,Gid Tanners,David "Stringbean" Akeman,The Blue Sky Boys,The Delmore Brothers,The Stanley Brothers,Roscoe Holcombe,The Louvin Brothers,Del McCoury Band,Johnny Cash,John Hartford,Doug Sahm,Sir Douglas Quintet,Gram Parsons,Townes Van Zandt,The Flying Burrito Brothers,Old and in the Way,New Riders of the Purple Sage,Bill Monroe, Willie Nelson,The Band,Bob Dylan,Neil Young,Pure Prarie League,Marshall Tucker Band,Almond Brothers,Steve Earle,Uncle Tupalo,Son Volt,Jayhawks,Lucinda Williams,Victoria Williams and The Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers,Jim Lauderdale,Gillian Welch,The Handsome Family,Blue Mountain,The Gourds,Lampchop,Old Crow Medicine Show,Southern Culture on the Skids)SOUL(Ray Charles,Sam Cooke,James Brown,Otis Redding,Aretha Franklin,Etta James,Booker T and the MG's,Meters,Isaac Hayes,Ike&Tina Turner,Archie Bell & the Drells,Sam&Dave)ALT.ROCK(Talking Heads,The Police,The B-52's,R.E.M.,Talk Talk,X,Violent Femmes,Pixies,Pavement,Beck)FOLK(John Jacob Niles,Berle Ives,Willie and Arlo Guthrie,Richie Havens,David Van Ronk,James Taylor,Jim Croci,Tom Waits,Harry Chapin,David Grisman,Doc Watson,Ani Difranco,Fion Regan)MY MUSIC BIBLE IS'Harry Smiths"Anthology of American Folk Music",Folk Music From around the World(Tuvan Throat Singers,Gypsy Music)I could go on but what is important is to open your ears and soul and listen to the endless combinations of rythmes and melodies.DON'T SETTLE FOR WHAT'S ON THE RADIO!!
Wizard of Oz,Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(70's original),Easy Rider,Reefer Madness,Harold and Maude,Cheech and Chong's"Up in Smoke",One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,Sometimes a Great Notion,Cool Hand Luke,The Exercist I&III, Song Remains the Same,The Last Waltz,The Wall,The Godfather I&II,Apocalyse Now,Taxi Driver,Raging Bull,Blue Velvet,Full Metal Jacket,Freaks(1930's),Millers Crossing,What's Eating Gilbert Grape,Reservoir Dogs,True Romance,Pulp Fiction,Natural Born Killers,The World According to Garp,Hotel New Hampshire,Saloms Lot(70's T.V.Original with David Soul)Little Big Man,Papillon,Train Spotting,The Doors(Oliver Stone),Monty Python and the Holy Grail....
Puff-n-stuff,Johnny Quest,Peewee's Playhouse,Captain Kangaroo,Hee Haw,Saturday Night Live,The Benny Hill Show,Monty Pythons Flying Circus,Old Buggs Bunny Cartons,The Gong Show,Frontline,Nova,The Electric Company,Nightline,Late Night with David Letterman,The Tom Snieder Show,Midnight Special...
Jarod Diamond(Guns,Germs&Steel-EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS),John Steinbeck,Joseph Heller,William S.Burroughs,Charles Bukowski,Ken Kesey,Hunter S. Thompson,Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsgerg,Harry Crews,Gregory Corso,J.D.Salinger,Arthur C. Clarke,J.R.R.Tolkien,John Irving,Kurt Vonegut Jr.,Harry Turtledove,Ann Rice(can't help it;red them all) John Kennedy Toole(A Confederacy of Dunces),Steven King(prior to Tommyknockers,since that book my interest has waned),Pat Frank(Alas Babylon)...
Benjamin Franklin,Sir Walter Raliegh,Robert E.Lee,Huddy Ledbetter(leadbelly),Uncle Dave Macon,Johnny Cash,Albert Einstein,Captain Kangaroo,Timothy Leary,Jerry Garcia,Jimmy Page, Jimmy Carter,..